by Michelle | Jan 12, 2010 | Fiction
Elizabeth Kostova, known for her debut novel The Historian, is back with The Swan Thieves (released today.) Summary: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert...
by Michelle | Dec 13, 2009 | Fiction
December 16th at 7:00 p.m. Kristin Cashore, the NY Times best-selling author of Graceling and Fire, will be visiting the library on Wednesday, December 16th. Borders Books will be selling copies of both after the event if you would like to have the author sign one (or...
by maturid | Dec 9, 2009 | Fiction
Reeve Lindbergh, herself an accomplished memoirist, writes a wonderful review of Jamison’s book in the Washington Post that can be found on the Amazon site. “To write the truth with such passion and grace is remarkable enough. To do this in loving memory...
by ta | Nov 12, 2009 | Fiction
On Monday evening, we had the pleasure of hosting New York Times Best-selling author, Matthew Pearl. At the end of a wonderful presentation about his work and the making of his book The Last Dickens, a member of the audience asked what books he was reading. Here are...
by maturid | Nov 10, 2009 | Fiction
A first novel by Gaile Parkin is just what the librarian ordered for the armchair traveler who, not for lack of desire, has never made it to the beautiful and fierce continent of Africa. Written in the authentic voices of her many characters, from Egyptians to...
by ta | Sep 28, 2009 | Fiction, Mystery
Originally from Palestine, Nayir is something of an outsider in Saudi Arabia. As a desert guide, he has become familiar with the bedouin customs, but the bedouins do not welcome him into their social circles and the Saudi’s think he is too much like a bedouin to...
